Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Haroldston Bridge (partly in Haverfordwest community)
Merlin's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Haroldston, Haverfordwest, Merlin's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, designated on 11 March 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 11 March 2004
- Locality
- Haroldston
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Merlin's Bridge
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79479, -4.96107
- Cadw reference
- 82631
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Road bridge crossing Merlin's Brook just to the SE of Haverfordwest.
History
Road bridge over Merlin's Brook, probably mid C19.
Exterior
Single-arched road bridge with well-made segmental arch with rock-faced stone voussoirs and raised grey limestone flat band over. Unusually high flat parapets with squared end-on coping stones, boundary stone with eroded inscription built into W parapet. Parapets are ramped down at ends on SE, SW and NE ends.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-made C19 small arched road bridge of historic transport interest.
Nearby in the register
- Haroldstone Bridge (partly in Merlins Bridge community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Haroldston CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Haroldston House and GardensHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
- Higgon's WellReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.